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BART

/bɑɹt/verb

BART is spelled B-A-R-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, BART means “To use Bay Area Rapid Transit, or to ride on BART” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in BART?

Letters4: B-A-R-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is BART?

BART appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce BART?

  • US /bɑɹt/
  • UK /bɑːt/

BART has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Bart.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with BART

Sounds like: baht (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with BART?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as BART from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of BART

  • BARTs present, singular, he/she/it
  • BARTing participle, present
  • BARTed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does BART mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To use Bay Area Rapid Transit, or to ride on BART.

noun

as Bart
  1. 1

    UKAbbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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